July 2, 2015 4:48 pm Leave your thoughts
I’d like to start off by apologizing for the delay in getting this blog written; these past couple of weeks have been surprisingly busy for me. I spent the last two days (Tuesday June 30th and Wednesday July 1st) in a helicopter, flying over dozens of roads to complete road inspections.
To get to the point of actually flying these roads,
June 30, 2015 10:17 am 1 Comment
I am now approaching two months of employment at West Fraser and the time is flying by. In the weeks since I have last written I have engaged in a few new job activities and done some that I am very used to.
I am really getting a feel for the scope of work in the operations side of forestry deals with,
June 30, 2015 9:57 am Leave your thoughts
For me, one of the greatest uncertainties before the summer began was the fact that I would be moving to a completely different province. I had never been to western Canada except for a short trip to Vernon, B.C. Nevertheless, I was very excited to get a chance to see the Rocky Mountains and experience living in a small town.
June 30, 2015 9:45 am Leave your thoughts
Hi again!
Work has been really busy lately as summer is kicking into full gear. Fawn (my student partner for the summer) and I have continue to design cut blocks to be harvested in the future. This involves laying out boundaries, roads, machine free zones, wildlife tree patches and eventually we will do the site plan data collection.
June 26, 2015 10:58 am Leave your thoughts
So in the interim between the spring plant and the summer plant which is starting at the start of July Taylor and I helped out the harvest planning and operations teams. Like I said last week, creek crossing inspections were a part of that. We also joined the area supervisors to help them with block recon and layout. I have to say it’s a good thing our cruise vests have lots of pockets to carry all of the flagging tape that’s needed,